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Metropolis is a fictional city that the Superman character calls his home in DC Comics.

Metropolis is located somewhere on the east coast of the United States. When he leaves the small town he grows up in, Clark Kent travels to the big city of Metropolis in hopes of finding a job that will allow him access to information and put him in a position to help people around the world. He secures a job at the Daily Planet, a powerful newspaper, and begins his career as Superman.

Metropolis is usually depicted as the quintessential modern metropolitan environment, a kind of "shining city". Some say that Metropolis is based on New York City above 14th Street on a sunny day, as compared to Batman's Gotham City, which is the darker version, or New York City, south of 14th Street on a wind swept night. Either way, Metropolis is the iconic "Big City, USA", just as Smallville is "Small Town, USA".

Important Locations in Metropolis

• Lexcorp Tower —Its two spires making the double L shapes, Lexcorps Tower stands as a tribute to the “great man’s” ego. C.E.O.Lex Luthor’s office is in the center of the two spires from which he looks down on “his” city. Using all the technology available, Lex monitors the city and exercises control like the God he feels he is. Conversely, the secrets of Lexcorp are protected by high level security, making it a fortress that even Superman can’t penetrate. It is central to Luthor’s corporate empire and said to be the heart of Metropolis.

• The Daily Planet —One of America’s oldest and most respected newspapers, the Daily Planet is, along with S.T.A.R. Labs, one of the few organizations in Metropolis out of the control of Lex Luthor. Run by managing editor Perry White, the Planet retains a crack staff including reporters Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and photographer and "cub reporter" Jimmy Olsen.

• The Dalten Tower —Located within view of the Daily Planet, the strange stone gargoyles on the Dalten Tower give it a unique atmosphere. You are probably not surprised to find out that it was designed by the same architect who built many of the buildings in Gotham City. Perhaps that was the reason that its top floors were chosen for a headquarters by the Birds of Prey, the crime-fighting organization that recently relocated from Gotham.

• 1938 Sullivan Street —This is the residence of famous newspaper reporters Clark Kent and his wife Lois Lane.

• Suicide Slum —In the shadow of Metropolis’ gleaming towers, Suicide Slum is the poorest section of the city. Perry White, Jefferson Pierce (Black Lightning), and the original Newsboy Legion grew up there.

• Metropolis Stadium —Home of the big league professional baseball team, the Metropolis Meteors. Metropolis is home to several sport's franchises, incuding Clark Kent's preferred baseball team, the Metropolis Monarchs, as well as the football teams the Metropolis Sharks and the Metropolis Metros, basketball's Metropolis Generals and hockey's Metropolis Mammoths.

• GBS Building —Headquarters for local TV station, the Galaxy Broadcasting System (GBS). You may have read about the scandal involving its former CEO, Morgan Edge, who turned out to have connections to the international organized crime organization, Intergang. Edge is now serving his prison sentence at Stryker's Island.

• Centennial Park —Reminiscent of New York's Central Park, but even more impressive. Don't miss the famous statues of Superman and the new one of the Modern Age Superboy, who died recently during the Infinite Crisis.

• Stryker's Island Maximum Security Correctional Facility —A truly secure penal facility, its security updated by Steelworks. The maximum security prison located on Stryker's Island has, for over 200 years, been "making Metropolitans nervous every time they look west".

• Metropolis Union Station —First and last stop for for the Metropolis Transportation Autority's crowning achievement, the Whale Rail System. The Whale Rail is famous for its giant triple-decker passenger cars which transport Metropolis citizens around and beyond the city.

• Special Crimes Unit (S.C.U.) is the city’s answer to the meta-human criminal problem. It is a department of the Metropolis Police Department. Headed for years by Inspector Maggie Sawyer until her recent transfer to Gotham City, leaving the newly promoted Inspector Daniel “Terrible” Turpin in charge. Accountable directly to Police Commissioner Bill Henderson, the S.C.U. is outfitted by the best technology that Steelworks can provide. It is the “first responder” to all matters related to super-villains and extraterrestrial invaders. This is one police department determined not to be dependent on their resident superhero to protect its good citizens from whatever is out there.

• The Avenue of Tomorrow —It's the city's R&D mecca, home to the nation's brightest minds, its most advanced labs, and most cutting edge firms. Including...

• S.T.A.R. Labs — S.T.A.R. Labs stands for the Scientific Technological and Advanced Research Laboratories. S.T.A.R. has facilities all over the planet, supplying an array of philanthropic, commercial, and military technical support. The Metropolis chapter is a particularly busy one, due to it being Superman’s home, making it a focus of meta-human activity. The fields of scientific study in a comic book universe are diverse, and S.T.A.R. Labs is there to help the Man of Steel and the citizens of Metropolis figure out its twists and turns. S.T.A.R. Labs also has an outlook space station that orbits the globe for observation and outer space experimentation. The quest to explain the unexplainable is led by Dr. Karen Lou “Kitty” Faulkner, and her team of scientists including Prof. Bridgette Crosby, Dr. Sarah Charles, and Dr. Phineas Potter.

• Steelworks —Headquarters to brilliant engineer, John Henry Irons, and his niece, Natasha, Steelworks is dedicated to the development of non-lethal meta-human control technology for John Henry's work as the armored adventurer Steel and for the Metropolis Special Crimes Unit.

The 31st Century

A thousand years later, Metropolis is home of the Legion of Super-Heroes. At this time, Metropolis is much larger, encompassing what used to be New York State, parts of Massachusettes, and New Jersey as well. Places to visit there are Manhattan Island, The Avenue of Heroes (including Legion Headquarters), The Interplanetary Zoo, Restaurant Row, Grand Central Spaceport, Legion Academy, The Boston Sector, The Time Institute, Catskill Park, and Metropolis Spaceport.